Neuroradiology: Page 222

Teenage wasteland? fMRI study shows adolescent brain is short on motivation

By Shalmali Pal

It’s this complex cost-to-benefit relationship in the adolescent brain that a recent neuroimaging study tackled. As with most of us, teenagers are thrilled with the idea of a reward. Yet how far are they willing to go to achieve it? And if there’s a stress-free way to obtain something good, will they gleefully go for it, regardless of the consequences?

March 18, 2004

MRI may supplant CT for early stroke assessment

By Brian Casey

MRI may ultimately prove more versatile than CT for early stroke assessment, according to noted MRI expert Dr. William Bradley, who spoke on the topic of MRI in acute stroke at the Indian Radiological and Imaging Association meeting.

March 11, 2004

BrainLab installs first U.S. VectorVision sky site

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Image-guided surgery provider BrainLab has installed its first VectorVision sky image-guided surgery system in the U.S.

March 9, 2004

New MR approach quantifies brain metabolite concentrations

By Tracie L. Thompson

VIENNA - Chinese researchers have developed a method to quantitatively measure concentrations of brain metabolites using a position resolved spectroscopy sequence (PRESS) in MRI, according to a presentation Saturday at the European Congress of Radiology.

March 5, 2004

4-D Neuroimaging goes private

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Magnetoencephalography (MEG) developer 4-D Neuroimaging has gone private, terminating its reporting obligation and stock registration.

March 3, 2004

Migraine sufferers benefit from MR tracking of potential brain damage

By Bruce Sylvester

Dr. Mark Kruit and colleagues from Leiden University Medical Center in the Netherlands said they believe they have demonstrated that migraine patients have an increased risk for brain lesions, and that brain damage can be caused by migraine attacks.

February 17, 2004

Neuroradiology: The Requisites

The latest edition features 364 more pages, including updated information, figures, and tables. However, numerous key concepts and classic images still remain.

February 16, 2004

Brain structure may vary in teens with major depressive disorder

By Jerry Ingram

Teenagers who suffer from major depressive disorders also appear to have smaller hippocampi, implying that certain biological markers can be pinpointed in pediatric mood disorders with MRI, according to Canadian researchers. They published their results in the online journal BMC Medicine.

February 11, 2004

MRI links brain trauma to long-term depression

By Bruce Sylvester

Psychiatrists from the University of Iowa in Iowa City imaged patients three months after trauma, and found that a mild degree of left frontal atrophy may indicate a significant risk for depression over the next year.

February 11, 2004

BrainLab wins ruling in Nomos patent lawsuit

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

German image-guided surgery developer BrainLab said the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Washington, DC, has ruled in its favor regarding a patent infringement suit filed by competitor Nomos of Cranberry Township, PA.

February 9, 2004

Enzyme found in bat saliva enhances MRI of thrombolysis

By Paula Moyer

SAN DIEGO - Vampire bat saliva can be used up to nine hours after an ischemic stroke for thrombolysis, with follow-up MR detection, according to a presentation this weekend at the American Heart Associaton's International Stroke Conference.

February 8, 2004

Neuroblastoma patients benefit from 131I MIBG scans throughout treatment

By Shalmali Pal

The positive feedback for MIBG scans in neuroblastoma patients continues. In a presentation at the 2003 RSNA conference in Chicago, Dr. Soo-Ah Im from the Catholic University of Korea in Seoul shared her department’s experience with imaging neuroblastoma patients with 123I MIBG after chemotherapy.

February 3, 2004

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